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Last week, within 24 hours of each other, I received two phone calls that separately would have been phenominal successes, but together just about blew me away with happiness. One was from my husband letting me know that the offer we placed on our very first home was accepted. The second was from Waggener Edstrom Worldwide offering […]

Elizabeth Gilbert, you annoy me. I will come out frankly to admit that I did NOT like Gilbert’s memoir. Her lackluster and self-righteous novelesque book left me bored, agitated and sad. Bored because her travels were nothing new. Agitated because egotistical writers often leave that taste in your mouth. And sad because I had gone […]

A few years ago, a lacrosse team of guys existed in the sunshine filled valley of Salt Lake City. And boys being boys, they challenged each other to just about anything that yielded a champion; even mustache growing. Even though a few of them were folically challenged, their hearts were in the right place when Stefan Turkula decided to […]

Walking is completely under-rated. It is one of the most down-to-earth (literally and figuratively) modes of transportation that actually allows you to experience what your passing through. Being that life is consistently on fast forward, I took it upon myself to walk nearly everywhere this weekend. It was so cleansing and refreshing to really see things. Breath […]

For years I have kept journals. Writing page after page of secret knowledge, coming of age tales and hyper-local activity. Reporting on the 5 feet around me was my passion. I have a half dozen books and each of them represents a different chapter in my memoir. The first is pink, bubbly and clearly from […]